Topic3-KW

Topic #3: From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges (p. 430-432)

K (What do you already know or think you might know? Brainstorm ideas; no right or wrong responses):

• Russia was under communist rule but is now free
• communists did little for the environment
• communism rule made Russia's economy go up side down
• the life expectancy in Russia is going down
• Russia is no longer a communism country.
• political challenges food water and government suffer from the separation from the Soviet Union.
• its a free nation now
• communism in Russia
• free enterprise

W (What do I want to know? Create your own questions using all topic headings and terms):

• What is the free enterprise system?

• How did the life expectancy change?

• What were the environmental issues?

• Why were there food shortages?

• What were some of the major political challenges?

• What is a federal republic?

• What is nuclear energy mean?

• what was the free enterprise?

• what are the environmental changes?

• what political changes did Russia go through?

• What is a federal republic?

• what does the Caspian Sea have to do with this?

• What is Chechnya?

• what is democracy?

• what does life expectancy mean?